One of the most interesting tables in the first set of draft pods
featured two Pro Tour winners. Here's how table seven ended up looking:

Seat:

Bryan Lynch - 2 Pro Tour appearances

Chris Stelzer - Juniors competitor better known as 'Yap's brother'

Mike Bregoli - Dojo writer and Pro Tour veteran

Mike Long - 3 time US team member, winner of PT Paris

Nate Clarke - 2 time top 8 finisher playing in his final major
tourney

Casey McCarrel - winner, PTNY, presently leads the PT player
of the year race

Eric Lauer - Top 8 at PT Rome

John Shuler - beloved Dojo writer

Not only did this table feature 4 players on the gravy train,
but they were all sitting next to one another. The first pack was
opened and drafted in the following order:

Lynch: Confiscate

Stelzer: Path of Peace

Bregoli: Symbiosis

Long: Phyrexian Ghoul

Clarke: Opal Titan

McCarrel: Argothian Swine

Lauer: Flesh reaver

Shuler: Goblin Matron

Shuler: Shower of Sparks

Lauer: Catalog

McCarrel: Titania's Chosen

Clarek: Healing Salve

Long: Veil of Birds

Bregoli: Headlong Rush

Stelzer: Tolarian Winds

One
of the key differences between booster draft and Rochester draft
is the amount of information which can be communicated through a
pick. With Lynch and Stelzer taking what they likely felt were the
best cards available (Though many would say the Titan is better
than the Path of Peace), Bregoli took the Symbiosis instead of the
Titan, communicating to Stelzer that he had no desire to fight over
White. Long followed this up by taking the much-improved-under-6th-edition-rules
Phyrexian Ghoul over the Titan, showing the table a preferance for
Black. After Clarke had taken the Titan, McCarrel, who had expressed
a desire to draft either R/G or U/W when we talked to him before
the draft took the best card available, the Argothian Swine, which
paired up nicely witrh the Titania's Chosen which both Lauer and
Shuler passed up for inferior cards, essentially stating the weren't
interested in drafting Green. The second pack went like so:

Stelzer: Catastrophe

Bregoli: Confiscate

Long: Wild Dogs

Clarke: Pegasus Charger

McCarrel: Acridian

Lauer: Fiery Mantle

Shuler: Desciple of Law

Lynch: Guma

Lynch: Catalog

Shuler: Goblin Matron

Lauer: Smoldering Crater

McCarrel: Hush

Clarke: Titania's Boon

Long: Curfew

Bregoli: Headlong Rush

After Stelzer took the power card which goes perfectly with his
first pick (Both are White), Bregoli once again adopted a "best
card" strategy, taking the Confiscate over the Wild Dogs or Acridian
which would have gone well with his first pick Symbiosis. Long then
took the Dogs, declaring a willingness to fight over green, and
Clarke followeds that up with another good late pick: a Pegasus
Charger. McCarrel further establishes himself in green with the
Acridian after which Lauer declared he'll fight with Shuler for
red. This is interesting because Lauer put himself in a potentially
dangerous situation by drafting red behind an experienced drafter
who had established himself in green, a color most often accompanied
in draft decks by red.

In the third pack, Bregoli established himself as a force at the
table by opening a Phyrexian Processor in an otherwise weak pack.
Long took a Symbiosis, attempting to scare Bregoli out of Green,
Clarke picked a Pit Trap and McCarrel took the best available card,
a Power Sink.

The fourth packs saw Long open the table's third Confiscate, which
he took over Despondency, in what may have been one of the few drafting
errors one will ever see Long make. Drafting behind a blue player,
Long could have further established himself in black by picking
the Despondency, but instead passed it to Clarke, a move which would
have loosened Longs hold on black if Clarke had chosen to pursue
it any further.

In the end, the decks looked like this:

Lynch: A U/B control deck with Conscate, Phyrexian Reclamation,
Expunge, a couple of regenerators and a fifth pick Bone Shredder

Stelzer: A U/W control dec k with a bunch of defence, fliers and
Catastrophe

Begoli: A G/U powerhouse with fliers, mana production and a Processor

Long: An agreessive B/R deck with 3 Skittering Horrors

Clarke: A somewhat weak GW deck

McCarrel: A very strong RG deck, along with Bregoli's, its one
of the two best decks at the table:

Lauer: a RB deck featuring a Phyrexian Reclamation, Cinder seer,
Attrition and Pestilence, but not much else

Shuler: A RW beatdown deck with plenty of direct damage and a
Catastrophe.